Category: Innovative Insights

Librarianship at Innovative, TikTok at the library, and more of Innovative’s top stories of 2023

IUG 2022: How user groups enable libraries to respond to change

Vega LX’s data handling has undergone examination using the industry standard SOC2 certification.

By using BIBFRAME as a basis for organizing information, Vega Discover takes advantage of the intelligence behind library cataloging to expose resources that are relevant to your users.

Innovative is proud to announce that Mobile Worklists 4.1 is in general release for Android and iOS.

Innovative is happy to announce that Polaris 7.0 is in general release, offering many enhancements to Polaris libraries.

Explore this eBook for a closer look at Innovative’s approach to the Library Experience (LX).

The past year has been a learning experience in the unexpected for everyone. Your library can start preparing now for the next emergency with a disaster response plan. Learn more in our whitepaper, “Planning for a Disaster: What Librarians Should Know.”

Innovative is happy to announce that Sierra 5.3 is in general release, offering many enhancements to libraries using Sierra. 

We interviewed Schlomit Schwarzer, Manager of the Education Department at Innovative, to learn more about the centralized collection of training materials in the new Training and Learning Center.

Is a fine-free model something your library has considered? Explore this white paper for a closer look at the fine-free model.

Library patrons like to do things for themselves, from self-registration and self-checkout to holds management and My Account. This challenge is about anything and everything that helps patrons help themselves. Suggest product improvements you would like to see made to enhance your patrons’ self-service experience. Both Sierra and Polaris users can participate in this challenge in their respective product category. This challenge begins on July 15.

Our team has developed some great new resources and we’re excited to share them with you.

This is a guest post from Victor Zuniga, Chair of the Innovative User Group and System Administrator at Poudre River Public Library District

When MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) was developed in the 1960s, computers were bigger than refrigerators and the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee, was still playing with Tonka trucks and G.I. Joes.

This blog post comes to us from Martha Rice Sanders, MSLS, Innovative Senior Systems Librarian. Ever since I began working for Innovative 2 ½ years ago, I have been learning … Continued

This is an exciting year for Innovative Customer Support, starting off with the recent announcement of several department changes focused on building relationships with customers.

Get involved in IUG 2019! Our annual, independent Innovative user group conference has been successful for the past 26 years thanks to users like you.

Librarians have been undertaking projects since there have been libraries – and possibly even before. Library Technologist Robin Hastings explains how best practices in project management can determine feasibility and streamline successful projects.

As someone who began cataloging in her infancy, well, early 20s, performing copy cataloging of musical sound recordings at the University of Illinois, Senior Consultant Martha Rice Sanders dreamed of participating in the PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging).

If you’re compelled to truly live the mission of libraries – providing resources, community engagement, provoking curiosity, and support lifelong learning – and inspire the same in those you work with, the Mindful Leadership Bootcamp Series will serve as a strong foundation.

Innovative is pleased to announce that Resource Sharing 3.1 is now in general release, offering libraries powerful new features.

Less than a year after the initial launch of Idea Lab, Innovative is pleased to expand our customer-driven innovation program with a new opportunity for collaboration. The Always Open Space is now open, and we invite customers to share ideas about virtually any aspect of library technology needs.

Results of the Polaris Web Application challenge, our latest product-specific challenge in Idea Lab, demonstrate the commitment of Innovative libraries to deliver exceptional service to their communities. Polaris users came out in force to share, rank, and prioritize ideas.

New Ways to Manage License Agreements and Content Providers Help Libraries Centralize Information
Our most recent release unveils new automation that makes it easier to manage your electronic resources and have all of the information you need in one place.

Your last cataloger retired. Now you’re learning cataloging on the job and taking it over because, frankly, no one else thinks they can do it. Welcome to the Accidental Cataloger’s dilemma.

Innovative recently launched Encore Release 4.7 with autosuggest for patrons and additional options for libraries with harvested collections. The release also includes improved performance for facet load time, and system performance for large libraries.

The latest release includes the Created Date field as an initial filter on the Low Circulation Weeding and High Circulation Weeding reports. This change comes based on library partner feedback and will help libraries weed according to the age of the item.

After the successful launch of Idea Lab, we’re excited to share the results of our first innovation challenge and announce what’s next. Our initial challenge “Leveraging Data” was a huge success!

As we consider the theme of “What’s Past is Prologue” for the annual Charleston Conference, it is clear that the area of library collections is still ripe for innovation in 2017. While the details of managing collections have changed dramatically over the years, the core goals behind why we do what we do have remained constant.

Innovative recently launched updated discovery features in Encore Release 4.6 SP3. The release includes streamlined facet performance, automatic display of only facets with results, and Red Hat 7 support.

This release includes expanded patron authentication options, access to configuration for tables library staff and administrators, and more accurate record matching.

Innovative recently launched updated discovery features in Encore Release 4.6 SP2. The release includes new sorting and harvesting features which will be available with Sierra Release 3.2 later this summer.

Decision Center Release 1.2 SP2 is now available to Innovative library partners with improved Encore location results and date information for reports on Postal Code by Patron Activity.

The Innovative Knowledge Base updates frequently and automatically for library systems. Have you seen these new features?

This year marks a major milestone in partnership between Innovative and the IUG as we joined forces to launch Idea Lab–a collaborative space for customer-driven innovation. Just three weeks after our first Challenge opened, we are thrilled to see more than 500 users of Innovative software from around the world working together through Idea Lab.

You took that important next step and invested in a new Innovative integrated library system. Now how do you ensure that your Innovative ILS will integrate with all those other technology platforms you rely on every day?